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kT | Present perfect simple and continuous @p © Isabella Mum News from NYC Fron: o Suto HiMlum and Dad, How are you? Sorry (2) ‘sooner, but! (2) Nev York. As you cansee, | (3) ‘email address to the one at my new job. | (8) (ceay) with mv friend Angle since | arrived. | (notbe)in touch (orgerise) my newlfein (change) my (5) (sleep) on hersofa and she ) (help] mefind an aparimenttto rent. 1) (love) staying with her, but she just doesn'thave enough space for me. The only problem is that allthe apartments we (8) (find) so fer 9) (be) either too expensive orvery dirty. {Tm sure''lfinda place soon, though. The bank work at hhas thousands ofemployees so! might hear of something through them. The new job isvery interesting and (20) (spend) all week earning the new systemsthere (14) (Go) outa otin the evenings =I (12) (see) three Broadway shows since Igot here!|(13) (decide] to stow down a bitnow, though, 1 (14) already (pend) too much money. liphone you at (look) the weekend after! (15) Jat some more apartments. Wish sme luck! Love, Isabella Complete the email with the correct form of the verbs in brackets. Use the present perfect simple or continuous. © onsaturday, tsabelta’s mum calls her. Use the prompts towrite her questions using the present perfect simple or continuous. 1_yourfind / an apartment yet? —) => 2 youvisit/the Statue of Liberty? —=r ° 3 youeat/ healthily? CG 4 what Broadway shows /see? C—_ = 5 youtake/ the subway everywhere? fee) Gomes © Look at isabetia's diary. write her answers to the questions in Exercise 2. Tune 9 Monday monthly ticket SY iioeg otatinn 10 Tuesday Hare dinner with Angie at Joes Burgers 11 Thursday Go to the theatre to Soothe" Lion king 8pm Friday Vigit fhe Statue of iberty Saturday ‘Speak to Num! 14 Sunday Arpeintment 0 view afbmene™ abo pe 12 © atch the phrasal verbs (1-6) with their de eed Phrasal verbs jons (A-F). = 1 hangout ( A toartive;to appear 2 counton _) B_tobecome; to transform 3. tuminto © tospend time with someone 4 makeup D toinvent 5 carryon E tocontinue 6 tumup 2 F torely on; todepend on Complete the text with the correct form of the phrasal verbs from Exercise 1 My classmate Jacopo and | were doing acourse project together. We had to conduct a survey and then ® theinformation areport.t had already finished doing the survey, and we had arranged tomest at my house on Saturday afternoon to write the report. When Saturday eame, he didn’t (2) at the agreed time, so | phoned him. He (3) some story about being ill, but l was surehe just wanted to @ \with his frends instead. had to 5) ‘working on the project alone. Imade sure that didn’t work with him again - Iknew | couldn't @ him, Collocations with make and do ) © complete the sentences with the correct formof make or do. 1 2 10 She needs to My friend Anna doesn't have to chores, She's so lucky! Your hairs too long, You should appointment at the hairdresser’s, John mea favour and drove meto the mechanic to pick up my car. I always aneffortto call my grandmother on Sundays. Ifyou want to ‘a good impression at the job interview, you should wear a sut. My clothes were getting really tight, so more exercise and started eating healthily. When Imoved to a newscheo|, | of new friends, any There's noeasy way to just have to work hard I can't come to the picnic this all my homework yet, ‘phone call, but her battery is really low, Atomiy ator (5 You won't hear exactly the same words as the words in the question, solisten for he some dec expressed using diferent words G > voewithesr peop tatingin cient aternt situa 1 For questions 1-8, choose the best ancwer (A, Bor). Bev ouheareyoung man taking sbothistiend new beirut What was his opinion of? A edidntlook very attractive B Ithelped advance her career. twas a risky choice of style o® 2 Youhear a man talking to his daughter about meeting, her mother for the fist time. How did he reset? A. Hewas upset by her behaviour. 1B Hewas sympathetic to her problem. © He was amused by something she said 3 Youheara girl talking about getting driving lessons from har father. Why was she unsure abouttaking them? AL She was worried about failing the test B She thought her father might be impatient with her, © She was concerned she would be a bed rivet. You overheara man and women talking about anew café. What do they agree on? A Itneedsa lotof customers to succeed B The servicei very clow. © There aren’tenough tables. You hear a woman talking about a tree inher neighbour's garden, What isthe woman doing? A offering 2 solution B expressing anger © ackingtfor aevice You heara husband and wife planning holiday. What does the man insiston? A going away forlonger then usual B returning to. place they've been to befor= © having a holiday by the coast You hear two friends talking about a photograph, How does the gil feel about her grandmother? A. She would lke to have her approach to life. B She wishes she had known her as a teenager. © She wants to help her with her problems. You hear aman talking about buyinga newcar. Whatis the mostimportant factor for him? A. how reliable itis B howbigitie © how muchitcosts ° oe ier For questions 1-8, read the text below and think of ‘the word which best fits each gap. Use only one word imeach gap. There is an example at the beginning (0). How many friends can you have? Dunbar’s Number (0) ‘the supposed limit to how many) peopleyoucan maintain a socal relationship with Inthe 1990s, the anthropologist Rabin Dunbar studied the social relationships of primates, () as monkeys and apes, and compared them to humans in terms (2) brain size and mental processing capacity. He concluded that for human sociel groups, 150 is(3) is according (@) Dunbar, itis highly unlikely that you could keep upreal social contact (5) ‘any more than this number. Ithae also (6). suggested in a recent study that Dunber’s number's applicable to online social networks end other communication channels. This is supported (7) thefact that the average numberof Facebook friends is 150. But it seems that even (8) we have 150 friends on social media, we class only a small fraction of those ae genuine. Correct the spelling and punctuation in the schoo! newspaper article. There are 15 mistakes. The first ‘one has been corrected for you. maximum number of peapleitis possible to have a stable relationship with. You may argue that you know more peoole, but Romembor thot itis vory Unley that you will need 10 Use the same word twice in different gaps. Rememberto think about spelling and punctuation as ‘ertors can make what you wtite dificult to understand. My sisters and 1 {am so glad im Tm not an only child. Of course. omy parents ate grate, but they ppermision or ifour bedroom gets io messy. They are much tdyer Sonia” ntcwettnay (P) Scuteaneae* nemypenete young, Thats when approctoto having sisters, Tmin the middle of two sisters and we spend all cour time together They are my best friends and ‘we get on really well. of corse, we sometimes fight ~for example, borrow asisters cloths without ‘fLargue wnit one sister, there is always the other one to talk to? We have the same taist in music, too. think that without my sisters’ life would be very boring. would 1ke to have a brother, too? Fm ‘nots sure, think 1 lke having sistors more. Atomiy ont (7

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